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Intel calls it a Knight on “HPC chip of the future"
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It’s been a hard days knight

Chipzilla has withdrawn support for its Xeon Phi Knights Mill and Knights Landing accelerators from the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler as a sign that its MIC architecture is toast.

Knight’s Landing beating Nvidia
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 19 July 2016 12:30

Knight’s Landing beating Nvidia


Only a flesh wound

Bad news for Nvidia as supercomputer maker Cray said that that Intel’s Knights Landing giving Nvidia a run for its money.

Intel’s Xeon Phi can now tackle any multi-processing
Published in PC Hardware


72-processors ready for AI


Chipzilla has announced that its 72-processor Xeon Phi now boots as a stand-alone, rather than as a coprocessor and can carry out multiprocessing tasks.

CPU-Z 1.76 released
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 25 April 2016 11:39

CPU-Z 1.76 released


Supports Broadwell-E official names, Intel AVX-512 reports

Last week, the folks over at CPUID.com released a new version of CPU-Z, their highly popular system information and clockspeed validation software.

Knights Landing Lands
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 17 November 2015 11:06

Knights Landing Lands


14nm process with 3D Tri-Gate transistors

Intel has started sending out its Knight's Landing version of Xeon Phi and this one has a 72-core coprocessor solution manufactured on a 14nm process using shiny new 3D Tri-Gate transistors.

Intel shows off some more Knight's Landing
Published in PC Hardware


Tech details online

Chipzilla has been publishing more information about its Knight's Landing Xeon Phi (co)processors.

Intel could challenge Nvidia on GPUs
Published in News
Thursday, 26 March 2015 12:02

Intel could challenge Nvidia on GPUs


Set my people Phi

Intel has released details of its next -generation Xeon Phi processor and it is starting to look like Chipzilla is gunning for a chunk of Nvidia's GPU market.